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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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It’s hard to defend taking kids out of a warzone, refusing to return them to their birth families or allow coordination to do so, then adopting them out to people in the invading country. It’s a poo poo practice, and it’s one completely unnecessary to Russia’s war aims. Even if Russia wins and forces capitulation, there is no good reason to refuse to return children to their families.
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Mar 18, 2023 01:01
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He's eating their adrenochromes
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Mar 18, 2023 01:01
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Endman posted:I'm not quite sure what you mean, could you explain a little further? I'd like to keep reading the book but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for another trojan horse containing only "communism bad" takes. Been a bit since I read it and I don't have access to my copy atm, but his argument is that the siege and its aftermath was a foreshadowing of the "bloodlands" that happened in Eastern Europe after the war. He spends time talking about attitudes towards different ethnic groups and violence perpetrated by both Russia and the A-H Empire. Edit: check pages 3-4 in the introduction. Minenfeld! has issued a correction as of 01:17 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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Mar 18, 2023 01:02
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mlmp08 posted:It’s hard to defend taking kids out of a warzone, refusing to return them to their birth families or allow coordination to do so, then adopting them out to people in the invading country. Taking kids out of warzone imo isn't the problem, it's what you do with them afterwards that becomes an issue.
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Mar 18, 2023 01:10
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Taking kids out of warzone imo isn't the problem, it's what you do with them afterwards that becomes an issue. Sure, yeah. There are established ways to deal with this, and post-evacuation refusal to return children to their families isn’t it. Especially when committing to a permanent adoption vs “Having problems finding your parents, please wait”
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Mar 18, 2023 01:11
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Minenfeld! posted:Been a bit since I read it amd I don't have access to my copy atm, but his argument is that the siege and its aftermath was a foreshadowing of the "bloodlands" that happened in Eastern Europe after the war. He spends time talking about attitudes towards different ethnic groups and violence perpetrated by both Russia and the A-H Empire. Fair enough. I'll keep reading.
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Mar 18, 2023 01:16
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/lrishConservNat/status/1635829101624786947?t=HWtMbXvEGVu9nv1vhTvoDQ&s=19 lol
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Mar 18, 2023 01:16
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Russian cops are weirdly passive aggressive and make people draw graffiti and sing songs? https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1636838263720640515
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Mar 18, 2023 01:19
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Lostconfused posted:Russian cops are weirdly passive aggressive and make people draw graffiti and sing songs? it’s like a Monty python skit
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Mar 18, 2023 01:23
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R. Mute posted:fun little tidbits about this vote: Rewriting all history books to just read "do a communism and DIE" in big crayon letters - the only lesson we need to impart, really
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Mar 18, 2023 01:28
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mawarannahr posted:Please, it's East Turkestan 🐺 Hope Erdoğan sees this, king (Charles XVI)
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Mar 18, 2023 01:32
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Minenfeld! posted:Been a bit since I read it and I don't have access to my copy atm, but his argument is that the siege and its aftermath was a foreshadowing of the "bloodlands" that happened in Eastern Europe after the war. He spends time talking about attitudes towards different ethnic groups and violence perpetrated by both Russia and the A-H Empire. I mean, that's what I've been saying about Ukraine. These aren't mythical bloodlines, the border between east and west, Catholic and Orthodox, white and asiatic or any of that stuff. Nor is it where Equally Bad Naziism and Communism abutted. It's literally the border of the Russian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire created by the partitions of Poland. 
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Mar 18, 2023 02:18
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Poland really is just the place you go to gently caress poo poo up over and over again throughout the history of Eastern Europe
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Mar 18, 2023 02:49
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there's a reason they want to push the button
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Mar 18, 2023 02:50
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https://twitter.com/JanR210/status/1635266972110970884
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Mar 18, 2023 03:16
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Interesting, can't tell if its just the translation but are they saying these are for new Russian formations because they previously said these were for the Republic militias. If these are for general Russian units does that mean they can't use their T-72 reserves for some reason? Most sources state they've got 6000+ T-72's mothballed.
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Mar 18, 2023 03:56
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Who the hell knows, but officially militias should already be part of the regular russian army. Also he gives no specific details, it's just russian people, our boys, for the front. Trying to figure out something from a single factory and applying it to the industry and economy of the country is just reading tea leaves.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:06
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T-62M is a modernized T-72 I think?
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Mar 18, 2023 04:06
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Regarde Aduck posted:Interesting, can't tell if its just the translation but are they saying these are for new Russian formations because they previously said these were for the Republic militias. If these are for general Russian units does that mean they can't use their T-72 reserves for some reason? Most sources state they've got 6000+ T-72's mothballed. maybe some factories do t62 and other factory do t72 anyways who knows what condition all the tanks are in. maybe a lot were stored well and maybe not, leave a car outside for 30 years and its gonna take some work to get it going again
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Mar 18, 2023 04:06
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tanks alot
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Mar 18, 2023 04:10
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why dont they just figure out the best tank and build lots of those
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Mar 18, 2023 04:11
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HiroProtagonist posted:T-62M is a modernized T-72 I think? T-62M is the later version of the T-62 built during the Cold War. Russia has had a tonne of them in storage for decades. The advantage of modernising the T-62M is that it has a gun capable of firing a lot of modern shell types, so it's not as far from being an effective modern tank as a T-54/55 would be.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:12
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wait a second youre telling me the tanks get better as the numbers go DOWN????
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Mar 18, 2023 04:14
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Al! posted:wait a second youre telling me the tanks get better as the numbers go DOWN???? no sometimes
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Mar 18, 2023 04:15
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the t-62 was pretty bad in wargame, only saving grace was that the t-62mv came with motorized decks and had a pretty good glatgm with it now with warno, the t-62m is a ok tank but still outshone by t-72s which got a autoloader i would never take t-62s, points and deck space are almost certainly better spent on t-80bvs and if you need less expensive fire support grab some infantry in bmp2s
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Mar 18, 2023 04:17
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germany's symbolic number of 1488 symbolic leopards are not going to be slowed down by hundreds (and hundreds, and hundreds) of very real russian tanks
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Mar 18, 2023 04:21
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The T-72 is absolutely a better, more modern tank than the T-62M, but Russia doesn't have hundreds/thousands of those in storage.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:23
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Delta-Wye posted:germany's symbolic number of 1488 symbolic leopards are not going to be slowed down by hundreds (and hundreds, and hundreds) of very real russian tanks one challenger can kill 10 russian tanks
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Mar 18, 2023 04:23
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CODChimera posted:one challenger can kill 10 russian tanks quote:How many Challenger 2 tanks are being sent to Ukraine? 14 should be plenty then
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Mar 18, 2023 04:25
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obviously the ministry of defence can't double the number of tanks because of the implications
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Mar 18, 2023 04:25
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Endman posted:The T-72 is absolutely a better, more modern tank than the T-62M, but Russia doesn't have hundreds/thousands of those in storage. As of 2017 they had 7000+ T-72's in reserve so... Yeah they do (did?) And that means ones not modernised to B3 standard so its not the ones that have got blown up. They should still have those 7000... The gently caress is going on?
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Mar 18, 2023 04:30
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OctaMurk posted:the t-62 was pretty bad in wargame, only saving grace was that the t-62mv came with motorized decks and had a pretty good glatgm with it There was that North Korean T-62 that was like 15 points that was a good addition to a deck but otherwise meh.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:33
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https://twitter.com/GhostovichSSOT/status/1636762523545350144
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Mar 18, 2023 04:51
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Regarde Aduck posted:As of 2017 they had 7000+ T-72's in reserve so... Yeah they do (did?) it all exists to be used and used up. now is the time and from what FF has posted, Russia is big into keeping the obsolete vehicles around and giving them second, third, and fourth lives with modernization programs until the hulls are total losses.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:54
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just build 999 t-1s and 1 t-999
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Mar 18, 2023 04:55
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Regarde Aduck posted:As of 2017 they had 7000+ T-72's in reserve so... Yeah they do (did?) Uralvagnzvod's building new T-90s/72s/BMPTs last time I checked. Most of the Soviet tank repair factories got torn down and sold off because of a certain Yeltsin and co. The T-62s is probably because of the relative ease of reopening and storage conditions.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:57
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 My understanding is that the Rhodesian conflict is where a lot of the "operator" cultural stuff first started to manifest. so you have green berets collecting ears in Vietnam and getting a reputation and a john wayne movie and everything. and then in the early 80s you have this idea of the Bush war, guys who don't wear the normal uniform and are doing "nontraditional" fighting, Soldier of Fortune magazine advertising that as a fantasy fulfillment experience. It seems like a pretty straight line from that to the current culture where you can buy tactical tier-1 operator coffee and kids aspire to be in Seal Team 6 like its an NFL team. I'd be really interested to check out any books or writing about how that special operator narrative was cultivated or really just anything about the rise of special forces fetishization into mainstream culture.
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Mar 18, 2023 04:58
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T-62 might just be a better fit for what the militias are doing. Just off the top of my head, it has a 4 man crew with a loader versus 3 man and an autoloader on the T-72 and beyond which probably simplifies the maintenance by a good margin, and once upgraded with ERA and modern optics its probably not meaningfully less vulnerable than an early T-72. Chinese media is full of reports that Pakistan is transferring some of their T-80UDs to Ukraine, under western pressure. These are probably more useful than Leopards or whatever since they were originally built in Kharkov so the Ukrainians still know how to operate and maintain them.
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Mar 18, 2023 05:03
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https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1636747690188107776 nafo infowar fanfiction is one hell of an alternate reality
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Mar 18, 2023 05:08
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Al! posted:wait a second youre telling me the tanks get better as the numbers go DOWN???? That’s right. US unfairly squatting on the M1 and China got screwed in the draft with the Type 99.
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